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ECTACO Partner XL-1500 - Multilingual Talking Electronic Dictionary: English, Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish | 
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Brand: Partner
Category: CE
List Price: $249.95
Buy New: $139.95
You Save: $110.00 (44%)
New (12) Used (1) from $120.49
Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
MPN: XL-1500
Model: XL-1500
UPC: 789981032575
EAN: 0789981032575
ASIN: B000J1VA2C
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | English <->Arabic, English <->Chinese, English<->Dutch, English <->French, English<->German, English | | • | Advanced English, Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanes | | • | 14-topic Audio Travel PhraseBook with a total of 31,000 phrases: English<->Arabic, English<->Chinese | | • | Reverse translation | | • | Reverse translation |
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Product Description
The Ectaco Partner XL-1500 includes bidirectional dictionaries: English<->Arabic, English<->Chinese, English<->Dutch, English<->French, English<->German, English<->Greek, English<->Hebrew, English<->Italian, English<->Japanese (Kana and Kanji), English<->Korean, English<->Polish, English<->Portuguese, English<->Russian, English<->Spanish with a total of over 3,367,000 words, including general words and idioms, medical, technical, legal, business terms, as well as slang and useful expressions. The Ectaco Partner XL-1500 is the only handheld dictionary to contain synthesized voice for all words (text-to-speech) in English, Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish within the same device! The inclusion of a 14-topic audio phrasebook containing travel-related words and phrases means that it can also speak 31,000 phrases in 15 languages to help get your message across in almost any situation. - Unlimited TTS voice function in English, Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish in the dictionary and PhraseBook.
- Reverse translation
- Multiple input methods for typing in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Russian entries
- Look-up function
- Award-winning Vector UltimaTM spell-checking system
- Phonetic transcription for English and Romanization for Chinese (Mandarin), Japanese, and Korean
- Metric and currency converters
- World time clock
- Slang lock
Size: 5.3 x 2.3 x 0.5 in. Weight: 4 oz. Battery Type: 2 x AAA batteries, included Plus! Super Value Bonus CD! Get access to millions of words. This amazing bonus CD includes numerous LingvoSoft dictionaries for Windows, Palm OS, and Pocket PC.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 2 more reviews...
 awful company October 9, 2008
I have a terrible experience with ECTACO's electronic dictionary. It was a total waste of my money. I needed a portable dictionary so I bought it directly through ECTACO's web-site, but it was... a trash, very infantry vocabulary determinations and didn't even have almost half of the vocabularies that I needed to find. What more frustrated me was that awful customer service when I tried to return the product. What a reluctant attitude toward return policy service was! They never sent the paper with a return policy in a packet with was within 30 days acception, not only that they told me to call back again and again and made me pass 30 days. Watch out folks! I am a college student working full time still trying to pay off the dept from that terrible dictionary that was not returnable nor helpful at all. I am So sad.
disappointing September 18, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I ordered the XL1500 because I am moving to China for my business. Unfortunately, I had to return the product. The voice feature is so poor, I could barely recognize the english speaking voice, much less the chinese voice. The french, spanish, and german voices were not too bad. I was also disappointed that I could not figure out how to enter pinyin chinese and radical chinese characters, even after reading the poorly written manual three times. The clincher for me was that the headphone jack did not work, it just muted the voice feature altogether. The unit does have an AC jack, but does not come with an AC adaptor. I called Ace Photo to return the product and was informed of the 10% restocking fee.
 works very well for a translator August 20, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is everything it says that it is. It translates and it speaks.
Its translations are fine. I'm not quite sure what the previous reviewer meant when they said it gave them wrong translations. It gave me plenty of choices when I looked words up in German (and a couple other languages), and then checked them out by looking up the given German word or words. If you cross-check its quite easy to find the precisely-nuanced translation.
The speech function sounds robotic, but it is definitely pronounced correctly.
This device functions very well, it easily switches the direction of the language, and has a fast lookup with easy lookup of the defined words. If you switch applications, from dictionary to games to dictionary, you'll have to change the language back to what you were using. It takes a little bit to get used to-ten minutes reading the manual and you're fine. It's annoying to change the batteries, but mine came with an AC adapter, so if you're near an outlet, you'll be fine. Those are some minor issues, but what sets apart this translator is the sheer amount of entries that it has(450,000 per language, plus 200,000 phrases)--nothing else in this price range is even close.
This is easily the best value for anything you'll get in the $100-250 price range.
 Keep Trying April 5, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I bought the Ectaco Partner XL with high hopes it would help me in my Arabic class. My Arabic professor asked me where I got my translations for some of the words because they were not correct. I have found some of the translations useful, but for the most part, incorrect. I contacted the Ectaco and was told that if I wanted Arabic translation I should have bought just the Arabic-English Electric Dictionary instead of one with many languages. I'm hoping the translations for the other languages work better than the Arabic.
 does what it says January 1, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
My wife is German and I am learning polish. This model had the most words out of the others that I researched for the price. Once you put an hour or two in on the manual usage becomes easy.
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